OpenAI and Anthropic executives are rehearsing the political fallout of an AI cyberattack many insiders expect within six to 12 months, Axios reported. Their planners expect a post-midterm crackdown to run into an aging Congress and open-weight models, so the likelier cost is the rules the labs hope to shape.
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Asked on a Dallas tarmac whether AI could end humanity, the president said he had no concerns and put the US a year ahead of China, while three separate catastrophic-risk bills sit in the congressional record.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar want a federal ban on developing AI capable of overpowering the federal government. ControlAI, which says it advised their offices, argues the bill's mandatory pause on advanced AI is unnecessary.
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The president told the UN General Assembly that all US documents will drop "artificial". CNET reports that no order has followed, so anyone drafting federal-facing text is weighing a speech against a settled technical definition.
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Hinton puts the window for AI guardrails at about a year in a closed Senate briefing
His case turned on AI designing better AI, with the compromise of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents as the one incident he named. The briefing produced no transcript. Hours later a single objection killed the nearest bill.
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The Pro-Human Assembly put a filed pause bill, a coalition of more than 50 organisations and a claim of enacted laws in five states on the same stage in Washington. The state count is the part a product team can plan against.
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Bessent told the House that AI labs should stay liable for what they build
Scott Bessent and FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson both pushed back on the industry's two asks in public but non-binding terms, and OpenAI said it can coordinate on safety with rivals without an antitrust waiver.
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Anthropic's alignment lead prices human extinction above one in ten
Seven named researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic want the frontier slowed, one of them quit to say so, and the only actions anyone can point to are that departure and a board seat for a former US safety official.
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Ohio pauses its data-center tax exemption after a $136m forecast came in at $1.6bn
The exemption sat in capex models as a zero, and in Ohio new applications are now frozen. Virginia, Georgia and Texas have published comparable misses and so far left their own programs untouched.
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Sanders and Casar attach a 20-year prison term to building superintelligence
The bill borrows the sentencing range used for unlawful nuclear weapons work. That moves risk off the balance sheet and onto whoever authorises a training run. It also landed on a day two harnesses scored the same model 35.9 points apart.
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Sanders and Casar would freeze frontier AI until a new cabinet agency writes the rules
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act is still described as forthcoming, but its case is built from the labs' own published pause pledges, which is where the exposure sits for anyone writing a safety policy.
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